Breaches and Hacks Archive
September may have fewer data breach incidents than the previous month, but overall there was a massive 363% increase, totalling 531,596,111 breached records. This number includes a whopping 419 million data records exposed from an unknown server and brings the …
Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) this week imposed a PLN 2.8 million (€645,000) fine on online retailer Morele.net for “insufficient organisational and technical safeguards”.
An Post has notified the Data Protection Commission (DPC) of a breach affecting 250 customers. An email sent to customers about the move of the AddressPal service from one post office in Cork to another accidentally had all 250 recipients’ email addresses in the ‘To’ field rather than 249 of them being in the ‘Bcc’ (blind carbon copy) field. This meant every customer who received the email could see …
The cyber attacks and 114,686,290 breached records in August 2019 is infinitesimal compared to last month’s total and about 10% of the monthly average.
July 2019 was one of the worst months ever from a cyber security perspective. With incidents like the massive breach at the Chinese tech supplier Orvibo and another leaked database filled with Evite customers’ personal details, the second half of the year began with a mammoth 2,226,042,039 breached records.
Haga Hospital, based in the Netherlands, was this week fined €460,000 by the Dutch data protection authority (AP) for breaching the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Haga was investigated by the AP after 85 hospital employees had access to the medical records of Samantha de Jong, AKA Barbie, a well-known Dutch reality TV star.
Phishing is a constant threat for organisations and individuals alike. The scam, which involves sending emails that masquerade as legitimate organisations to fraudulently obtain sensitive information, targets hundreds of millions of organisations and people daily. Microsoft OneNote users are the latest target of a phishing scam. An email entitled “New Audio Note …
Ireland’s DPC (Data Protection Commissioner) has launched a third investigation into Apple’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance. The investigation will examine the tech giant’s compliance with the relevant GDPR provisions in relation to a customer’s DSAR (data subject access request).
It’s been a bad month for Australia and Canada: dumped out of the Women’s World Cup and responsible for 13 data breaches.
Meanwhile, another Irish hospital has left medical records on a city street for the public to find and local …
The FAI (Football Association of Ireland) confirmed yesterday that servers in its Dublin headquarters were breached in an external hack over the weekend.
